María de la Asunción Uriz Mosquera (born 21 August 1946), better known as María Uriz, is a Spanish soprano.
Biography
María Uriz was born in A Coruña. While studying for her Superior Baccalaureate, she began studying piano, chamber music, and dramatic art at the Conservatory of Music in her hometown. At the end of these courses, and influenced by her brother who was a member of the Echo Polyphonic Choir, she took her first steps in the world of opera. After that, she began her singing career, concluding her studies at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu.[1]
In the 1970s she obtained the March and Castellblanch scholarships, which allowed her to move to Italy to further her studies.[2] Later she also obtained the Agustín Pedro y Pons scholarship and the Eugenia Kémeny singing prize. Shortly after this, she was required by the authorities to act in the reception that annually recognized the then head of state Francisco Franco and his ministers at the Municipal Palace of A Coruña. For four years, and under the direction of famous soprano Elvira de Hidalgo, the teacher of Maria Callas, she studied vocal and stage technique in Milan.
1975–76 Carmen (with Plácido Domingo), Norma, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Gil, La traviata (with Jaume Aragall), Macbeth (with Pedro la Virgen, Joan Pons)
1976–77 La bohème (with Plácido Domingo and Montserrat Caballe), Romeo, Medea (with Montserrat Caballe), La traviata
1977–78 Parisina d'Este (with Montserrat Caballe and Plácido Domingo), La bohème (with Montserrat Caballe)
1978–79 Maruxa, La vida breve
1980 Il trovatore, Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra
^Oliva, César; García de Dueñas, Jesús (1999). Fernando Guillén, un actor de hoy [Fernando Guillén, an Actor of Today] (in Spanish). Ediciones de la Universidad de Murcia. p. 140. ISBN9788483710708. Retrieved 1 June 2018 – via Google Books.